Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site


In the Forum: Audio Discussions
In the Thread: A listening room for a domesticated Cat?
Post Subject: Oh well...Posted by anthony on: 3/1/2016
fiogf49gjkf0d
 Romy the Cat wrote:

Anthony, the rock located in a middle gives a great advantage of shortest and symmetric cables.


But it is only the interconnects to the amplifiers that need to be longer...no others...speaker cables stay as is...all cables into the preamp stay as is.  Longer interconnects is not an issue in any way that I know of...but I would prefer longer interconnects than longer speaker cables.


 Romy the Cat wrote:
I do not think there are any reflection issues with equipment in the middle. In fact it is opposite: a pile of equipment make a great diffuser. Yes, the speakers need to be further into the room but not because equipment but because Macondo topology - it must be well extended forward.


Between the speakers we generally want even broad band diffusion for best results and at best a rack will give a little bit of random diffusion in narrow bands.  A dedicated wide band diffuser is likely to give better results.  

Romy, your rack is large and heavy and shaped like a 'wall' so by putting it between the speakers you are effectively moving the back wall forwards according to what the speakers will 'see' which might cause Macondo to need to be further into the room by an amount equivalent to the width of your rack.  This may or not be an issue in your situation depending on the size of your room...it is a problem in my situation.

 Romy the Cat wrote:

There is one more reasons: if the  equipment is "between" the speakers then the whole audio area might be easily to fence out, that is not last factor in my life now.


Well, yes, that could be a very good reason in your situation.  My kids are older, and now quite well trained in regards to the audio stuff, so a little different situation, but I still plan to integrate DSET on the frame of my Macondo with embedded speaker cables and rely on long interconnects from my source gear that is situated elsewhere in the room.

Please note that I am not 'arguing' my point, rather fleshing out the reasons for my suggestions.

Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site